First report of JFK assassination from WFAA
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2017
- WFAA was one of the first media outlets in the world to break the news that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. This is a look at the report as it happened.
Imagine sitting down being interested in a new jacket then finding out the president has been shot within a few seconds.....crazy times.
you can see the presenters looking at the people behind the cameras running round in a panic! it's so weird
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Now that I think about it .. that’s gotta be one of the most craziest thing ever
Though, this was graphic and shocking at the time.
Imagine going to school one day, and learning before first period that America is under terrorist attack.
That’s exactly what happened to me and millions of other 14-year-old kids on Tuesday, September 11th 2001.
My guy saying he’s out of breath proceeds to smoke a cigarette
gotta catch your breath alright eh?
"Doctors agree that Winston is the best cigarette for a long, healthy life!"
They smoked all the time on t.v. back then. Filthy habit.
Ok,so what?That's his lungs,worry about your own.
It was the 60s
The reporter had a sense of history by assuring the broadcast was taped.
people back then actually studied it
He also probably wanted the coverage recorded so that tapes of any interviews could be fed to ABC for network telecast.
@Jesse Pinkman just a part of life back then. Even into the 1970s. Smokers will increase their usage under stress too. You could see a lot of people smoking and this video.
Very important he did that for history’s sake.
My grandma was in her eighth grade english class when this happened, and about an hour later, the principal announced on the P.A. system, and she says she’ll never forget what he said, “President Kennedy has been shot. All classes are to be suspended and students are directed to head home for the day. Thank you.” She tells this story every year on
November 22nd.
:>(
My grandad, here in Britain, says he vividly recalls helping his friend paint his kitchen that day. As they were working, they had the radio on in the living room. Hearing that the music had stopped, my grandad and his friend went to the radio and, of course, they found out what had happened.
I was in 4th grade and we were having our break, and the teacher was out of the room. Mrs. DeHolzer, the elementary level principal, announced via classroom loudspeakers,
"Boys and girls, I'm very sorry to tell you that President Kennedy has passed away." That was a confusing way to put it because to me at the age of 9, "passed away" was only what old people did. Kennedy's youth had been publicized constantly since he'd been elected in 1960 so I couldn't understand how he could've died of old age.
My mother was in high school in Florida and tells the same story
My grandma was born the year Kennedy was shot which was 1963
It's absolutely priceless to be able to see this footage. Thank you.
"get the film developed as soon as possible" --- wow. Today's technology is just INSTANT everything.
Yes, agreed. We have came very far from technology from the 1960s.
I've heard it took the studio cameras of the time about an hour to warm up and be ready enough for use once turned on, that's why when you watch a lot of these videos about the assassination the first thing shown upon breaking the news is just a network logo with a voice over. From then on afterwards most studios had the policy of keeping at least one camera on and ready to go at all times.
@@joesmoe71 Yes that technology seems so primitive to us now, but at the time it was very modern I'm sure!
@@joesmoe71 Home television sets used to take at least a minute to warm up before a picture or sound would show up!
I was 5 in 1960, watching the presidential debates and I wanted Nixon to win. I think the election results were the same, in 1960 and 1964, when the voting totals were changing they were writing them on pieces of paper and show them to the viewers; Hubert Humphrey and Barry
Goldwater tried both times and couldn't get enough
votes.
"Cut down, by an assassin's bullet"
'Cut down' is just hard core journalism.
I was very surprised by that choice of words.
No, it's more melodrama.
It was the vernacular of the south in those days.
It also is a vague choice of words, because in all the pandemonium that occurred, reporters were trying for about an hour and a half to find out whether the president and governor were alive or dead. They’re trying to be first, but also trying to be accurate, and they were getting conflicting reports as to the condition of the two men. As it turned out, Governor Connelly survived, but President Kennedy did not.
So using the phrase “cut down” isn’t really definitive as to whether or not the victims survived or not. They did accurately report who the two victims were.
We dont know where he was shot but apparently he took a shot to the head
I wasn’t born yet but being able to watch this allowed me to feel exactly how it felt for everyone to hear it for the first time and exactly how it was and felt back then…
Comments on this video: 5% about the assassination, 95% about the anchors smoking in the studio.
It's bad enough they smoke on live TV. But to smoke while interviewing people? That's bad manners!
Also a few % about the zippers.
@@urbaniteurbanizer1612 wish he'd blown it in their faces just to help "woke " you up!
@@urbaniteurbanizer1612 back then people smoked all the time and everywhere. In fact, think about the places you can't smoke today. Back in the 60s people smoked in those places.
The SAGE national defense network had cigarette lighters built into the computer consoles.
That shows how different attitudes about smoking were back then.
The Bobby he’s talking to is my dad
This is a small world indeed.
That’s amazing sir
Is he the cameraman 🎥?
He was the director in the booth
Cool
Did they end up explaining where all the hidden zippers in the jacket were?
Lol
What show was that
Hahaha, I was like “Why do they have them in the sleeve?!?!”
@@threeminuteshate probably to hide money or credit cards in. Or your gloves. Today people would probably put their phones in them.
😂😄
I think Jay Watson did a terrific job of clearly presenting the news as it came in, with as much detail as possible, coordinating events in the news studio and finally conducting interviews with eye witnesses.
Sadly he passed away early in 2001.
Absolutely!
@@aaronz7056 lung cancer?
TV was just coming into its own in 1963 and I can't imagine the news departments were prepared for anything like this. They now had to provide visual and audio with early cameras and sound recording. These replays fascinate me, and I was 13 years old then and remember most of it.
Oh yeah. He did a really good job that day.
This is far more engaging and informational than the clips of network news coverage I’ve seen . WFAA was really on the ball and could collectively think on its feet . I’m very impressed.
Informative
8:45 Ed Hogan reporting from outside the hospital is my great grandfather
Betsy over here flexin her jacket and gets interrupted
@@johnxu2001 too many zippers though
"I'll just stand here in the dark."
Real women 😊
Reporters smoking on air...something you'll never see today.
We had a smoking room right next to our Intensive Care Unit back in the 1990s. Many docs smoked while doing dictation in a hospital staff room. And here in North Carolina there were department stores that allowed smoking in the late 1990s, early 2000s. Not so long ago really.
Andy Griffith used to smoke on his TV show. All actors that smoked , smoked on TV..I remember Sammy Davis Jr smoked on All In The Family
I'd like to see the unedited video tapes of this station during this same time. It looks like the scenes were cut off and then new ones were started in this montage. This is a glimpse back into every day work life in a newsroom circa 1963. It's very intriguing.
Yes seems like there's a lot more footage... would love to see it. The CBS Cronkite coverage get's most of the attention but this is a lot more gripping and raw. Puts you right then and there on that day.
@DW_X go to David Von Pein's UA-cam channel on WFAA/JFK Assassination coverage
Absolutely, we will never get to see it because wfaa was in on the conspiracy. They were brought in by the Dallas police to assist in the cover up and misinformation. You guys need do do some research.
@@davidgibson7615 Agree, great channel!
@@Null_Protogenthere’s actually a version of this that’s like 4 hours long for jfk and bobby
I love that he’s smoking the entire time. Simpler times
After the news broadcast, a commercial probably aired saying "9/10 doctors prefer smoking Lucky Strikes, with the new revolutionary filter addition. Smoke healthy, smoke filter Lucky Strike" *happy jingle
Powerful and raw. It is interesting that even in 1963, during a time of crisis, tv station news departments knew how to vamp. I really thought that was a fairly recent development, say during the last twenty or thirty years, when a news station will get hold of something incomplete, and talk up the same points endlessly until more information becomes available.
Recent? Nope. People had already been doing it on the radio, starting in the 1920s, before TV even existed. And of course it had been a skill for live performers for as long as stage presentations or musical performances had been going on in human culture.
7:07 rare footage of the motorcade enroute to parkland hospital.
"There goes the President on up the hill", but, where? The left? The right? Hard to see the car
Tommy Jakob very true man, very true.
But he’s there somewhere, keep looking😉.
I miss parts of the 60's I never knew. The decorum. "Excuse me..I apologize if I'm out of breath..."
Eu também tenho esse estranho sentimento de saudade, embora tenha nascido no final dos anos 1980. Isso me dá medo.
The early days of live news coverage. It is raw, but overall they did a great job considering. Fascinating video. And yes, cigarettes were much more a normal vice.
And knowing how rattled everyone was, they all needed a cig to calm down.
Nobody beats Cronkite's reporting on it
One minute you are listening to relaxing piano music while looking at boots and jackets…the next minute is like Armageddon
That shows how quickly focuses can change. Here’s a local Dallas TV show 58 years ago on the Friday before Thanksgiving, where they are talking about jackets and zippers and “Mad money.” It could have just been a long lost TV show.
But, less than a minute later (0:55) that show is broken into by a news report that will absolutely jolt the City of Dallas, The state of Texas, the USA, and the world. In some ways reverberations from that day in Dallas are still with us in January 2022.
Thank you for posting this. Wow! I have watched it several times before but I haven’t posted anything until now. This is what makes UA-cam so fantastic that we can have a record of that very tragic but historical moment.
People don't understand how truly earth-shattering this moment was... my Mother was in high school when she heard this, everyone was absolutely shocked. Stores closed for the day, people were glued to their radios and TVs for hours, it was all very somber. The funeral was also very sad and for days afterward everyone felt like it was all just a terrible nightmare. Sixty years ago, America was a much more close knit and uniformly educated and informed country back then, and people reacted to this with great dignity and poise. My ex-boyfriend's late grandfather told me that for years, he couldn't pass through that part of Dallas, because he had been there in 1963, and saw the entire thing unfold in gruesome detail.
Yeah back when everyone believed everything the government told you was 100% unquestionably true. 😂😂 that’s why people were “more uniformly educated”. Not educated enough to realize the warren report was a fairy tail m, since Walter Cronkite said it was the truth EVERYONE believed it 😂😂😂😂😂 broadcast journalism at its infancy here.
That’s not true. Dallas was very conservative then and many people had anti Kennedy signs. A 4th grade class in Dallas cheered when they heard the news. An older friend of mine went to Stephen F Austin University when it was announced. The students in the lunchroom stood up and cheered. Kennedy was hated by a lot of people. It seems unbelievable now, since Kennedy wasn’t a liberal by today’s standards. The same would happen now when Trump or Biden dies. I mean both are really old, so it’s bound to happen. People are the same then as now.
I was in 5th Grade when this happened, and remember the events very well. I concur with your remarks.
The NFL didn't cancel the following Sunday's games. Many of the Dallas Cowboys who were playing on the road that weekend in Cleveland said they were verbally abused at the hotel (bellhops wouldn't carry their suitcases etc). They were booed and heckled at Cleveland Stadium.
I was 8 years old… all TV programs were suspended out of respect for JFK in my country🇬🇧… early evening children’s programs were abruptly interrupted with this evil news.
I remember asking my grandad lots of questions?
It was definitely a: “whoops, wrong planet” moment for my young mind.
I still find it incomprehensible how anyone could do such a thing.
in 1983 this dallas station reran their total weekend coverage of the assassination. it was mesmerizing. they announced a policeman had been shot in oak cliff but they didn't think it was related. of course, it was totally related. it was oswald killing the cop who stopped him to question him.
The girl be like: 💗🌈🎀🤗 this jacket is amazing
News reporter: our president died.
Person watching: 👁️👄👁️
👁 👁
👃
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I had never seen these clips before. Fascinating work by this station and the anchor in particular. Being able to think straight under pressure is a real skill. I worked in the newspaper business for many years, and I can tell you the adrenalin rush of a high-pressure situation enhances your ability to focus like you wouldn't believe.
...he sure was huffing that cigarette. People don't realize it was common to see people smoking on TV back in the day. Seems so strange now, looking back at it.
This clip is in excellent condition. It must have been well-preserved or digitally remastered 🙂
I was in the 11th grade in San Antonio, TX and was walking into the lunchroom when I had heard an initial report that said there were reports the president had been shot. I went on in and asked if anyone else had heard anything and everyone was acting as if I had made it up. I left without eating lunch in search of a radio where I could hear more. I found one in the counselor's office where teachers and students were gathering to hear the latest news. When it was time to go to our next class, they turned on the intercom radio and played it until they announced he had died. We were not excused from school, and, in fact, our school had a football game scheduled that night, which they felt had to go on. We were already set for playoffs, and had to finish the game that night in order to not throw off the schedule for the playoffs. Somehow the band directors managed to have an excellent tribute to Kennedy at the game that night. Everyone was in some degree of shock at the game.
Texas hasn't change much. Sad day for America and horrible day for Texas lawenforcement.
Curious if you or anyone else you knew would have seen JFK in San Antonio the day before?
It’s a really sad news announcement and kind of odd to see a news anchor smoking a cigarette
I don't think today's generation can appreciate how shattering the assassination was to those of us who lived through those times. The loss of innocence was palpably real.
No we just can't believe you's bought the magic bullet idea and actually thought you's had a democracy going forward, now they're repeating the cycle bar the unnecessary murdering of a president that they did not permit.
@@jabronisauce6833 Anyone clinging to the idea of a magic bullet in 2022 is being dumb on purpose, based as it was on wrong information from the get-go. Anyone can make a mistake, but when easily disproved ideas are continued to be endorsed, then it's hard to condone or even understand such a blinkered mindset.
WFAA is about three blocks south of Dealey Plaza. Eerie thing is that at about the same time this video starts, Lee Harvey Oswald was probably riding in the taxi right past the station on his way to Oak Cliff.
9:09 “I’m Mrs.Quincy Adams.” Oh, the irony.The 6th president of the USA.
I was in 7th grade social studies. The principal announced it on the loud speaker. Our teacher sat at his desk and cried. School was dismissed. And all we did was watch tv coverage all weekend and the Monday funeral.
My mom described it as the Saddest day in the History of our country.
I thought that was 9/11
bad for Americans anytime a DEMOCRAT is in offce
@@Bledipr And Pearl Harbor, Lincoln's assassination, the election of Trump.
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And evil and orange and bad and evil and btw hes evil and orange and racist and orange!!!
Ps: bad man orange.
Was sent here by my tv history course. This is wild.
10 yrs old in 1963 i remember this so vidvily
He came on the air at about 12:45 PM CST, just a few minutes after the motorcade arrived at Parkland Hospital. JFK wasn’t officially declared dead until 1:00 PM CST
officially is the keyword here
Um...they knew he was dead on the spot.
He was not involved. Calm down.
I always thought WFAA's first bulletin was around 12:38 or 12:40 P.M. CST.
That interviewer with the cigarettes....greatest newscaster ever!
Which would explain why he was out of breath
My mom was a sophomore in High School when this happened and she remembers the principal announcing over the pa that Kennedy was shot and then later he announced that Kennedy was dead and they sent everyone home.
2:54 "Bobby why don't you take your shot over there..." Prophetic.
Everyone just causally smoked back then. Blowing smoke into the face of the guy you were interviewing.
December 7, 1941, November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001. The three dates that will live in infamy.
Don’t forget April 4, 1968!
Gentlemen you wrote true history! Respect...
Burt said that Connaly and Kennedy were still alive before he left the hospital...so I wonder if that was what he was told or if he in fact did see JFK still alive but barely
The President was killed on impact.
You just need to see his injuries to know he was dead about 0.3 seconds after the second shot made contact with his skull. Lights out, all out.
He may mean not pronounced dead.
Believe it or not, he had a pulse and agonal respiratory function until about 12:50. Watch the interviews with the Parkland doctors.
:>D Oh man, another one. :>(
I love how he’s just ripping heaters on live national television
Ripping heaters...LOL
60's & 70's TV was pretty wild. It's amazing what was acceptable at that time.
@@KozyKool2287 I was alive then. Everybody drank and smoked. But stay away from that whacky tobacky.
I went to high school in the early 80's. My friend who smoked always called them bakers.
I was 12 at the time. I was in our school hall and watching a play when it was announced that the president was shot.
People were so much better spoken back then…
Real journalism. Not what we have today.
This is like a time machine amazing
It remains the most gripping moment in American history since Lincoln-Booth, perhaps more so.
This is so bizarre that all of this was recorded on videotape in 1963..............
Why is that bizarre?
@@HadrianDorian Because they were showing a live broadcast, maybe they were taping it for a later re-broadcast.
@@CoopyKat My grandpa had friends in news and he said back then many stations taped their broadcast and would keep tapes for up to 2 weeks. Then often use the same tapes to tape over during broadcasts over previous broadcasts. I can only assume and I think safely assume in this scenario they decided to keep the tapes as is for historical purposes. After all it would be the most important broadcast in WFAA history.
Wow! Some of this film footage I never saw before. The live scenes at the News room and on the street is truly amazing
This is the best news report I ever seen
Back then the local stations weren't set up for breaking news situations as you can see they went live and we're getting set up at the same time...total chaos with the news anchor inhaling a lucky strike simultaneously...it paints a picture of how the emotions were back then...the actual footage of the shooting would not be seen till years later from a local residents home movie projector...Today every second of the Presidents movements are on camera so if this happen today you would get 8 different angles broadcast within minutes not to mention camera phones
It's True. The Net would have it before the Network Anchors even opened their Mouths.
Wow, imagine witnessing this like they did, what a wild intense event to be apart of
My mom was a sophmore in high school. She was in art class when a nun (she went to catholic school) came in, whispered to her teacher then left quickly. Her teacher told the class to gather their things and wait for an announcement. A few moments later, the principal came on pth P.A. and said Kennedy had been shot and they were dismissing school for the day. My mom and my aunt came home together and found my grandparents crying--grandma was doing Hail Marys--by the TV. Both of my grandparents loved Kennedy because he had a young family like they did (my uncles were 10 and 6 at the time) and he was catholic. When Cronkite came on and announced that Kennedy was dead, my grandma let out this wail that, according to my mom, she never heard again, even when my grandfather died 9 years later.
I was 11 years old and in the 6th grade on 9/11/01. I'll never forget that day. I clearly remember the teacher playing the live news footage and witnessed the whole thing. It was shocking.
I was 11 too. I remember the teacher of the class next to mine showing the live news to her class. It was crazy.
You make me feel old. I was 20 and in college.
There are links to both incidents vicpiper3971
A time when it was not unusual for the news to be delivered by a guy smoking a cigarette.
November 22 1963. I was 18 years old. A day that is still fresh in my memories.
I was 23 years old then, and yes, just like you, a day that is still fresh in my memories...
I agree. I was 12 at the time, and was absolutely devastated. I still think about it at least once every day.
My father turned 32 that day as he lived in Ft. Worth. It sucks having your birthday becoming synonymous with a tragedy like 11/22 or 9/11.
I looove the way things were shot back then. The anchor telling the guys what to do. Everything. Just seems so natural
It’s amazing see him smoking on the air. I really appreciate the honesty and genuineness displayed here.
Jerry became Mr. Peppermint, tv show for kids located in Hillside Village at Abrams Rd. and Mockingbird.
They did not say the president was shot , right away. Shots fired at the president's motorcade , they said. Then went back to Bozo Circus. I told my mother. Had two questions. What is a president ? And what is a motorcade ?
3:25 why is he doing the funky chicken?
Just amazing to have copies of this
Priceless footage. Thought I'd seen everything that existed and am pleased to be wrong. This captured the precise time when our country began to lose its way.
Thats how it was in the 60's, I remember being at home with my dad smoking, my mom cooking with a cigarette in her mouth, my aunts uncles would come over also smoking. I was only about 8 too young to smoke, but I had a small box of chewing gum shaped like cigarettes, my brother also had his box of chewing gum cigarettes. To us it was just normal everyday life in texas. Those were the days.
Watching the reporters on TV smoking would only give us a craving to reach for our own cigarettes. Today we might comment on it but back then it was no big deal.
Hey, I don't know if you noticed but the awesome fashion show you tried to upload was interrupted with some boring newscast? Can you fix this glitch and reupload? Thanks.
Burt acts like he's talking about his vacation footage: "Yeah right here you see us driving to the scene, and here's some protesters but they ain't hurtin' anyone. Oh yeah, I got to meet the police chief, real nice fella."
They were professional news men not wine sipping women.
@@mikeygoodboi true
They cut out where he describes where he was and where he heard the gunshots come from
I'll bet he was standing....yeah, that's it. Standing.
Cut and restarting tape at 1:49 - was the mastertape broken at that timestamp or anything? Other, older transfers of this broadcast (elsewhere online here, look for WFAA JFK) have this segment in full.
I guess we'll never know the reason for having a zipper in the arm of a jacket. Had TV execs developed a more longterm vision for their programming decisions they probably wouldn't have cut away until the woman finished her thoughts on the matter.
You'll never solve the Oz enigma because you think it's real and think media's don't lie...
And yet it's media's troupes who killed Lincoln and Kennedy.
Life magazine paid for the hit..
That's why media's hide Oz , with Os...
They don't hide the magical trajectories...
Grassy knoll, babushka lady, the hidden zipper... Some conspiracies will never be solved
@@XKT035 reel shooter, Dorothy kilgallen, illusion of truth, all conspiracies are solved on liars world.
The Kennedy curse and Oz and magical trajectories...
Ozcar performance of lies and illusions..
I can show you the first step in solving JFK via death certificates and business deals with RKO and Disney corps new stormtroopers..
The double Cross by Oss is brilliant ..
I have to disagree. The news from Dallas was about such an enormous event that something such as a discussion of clothing was so trivial in comparison that there was no reason to wait for the fashion lady to finish speaking.
Maybe a cozy pocket for all the cigarettes everyone was chain smoking?
There is an absolute rawness in this broadcast that you never see today.
This fascinating. The fashion segment; a man smoking while delivering the breaking news; the beautiful heavy drapes.
Wow this had to be horrific.
It really was. It was a huge event for many people and I think it could be truthfully said that for some people JFK's death was a paradigm shift, it changed how they saw the world.
It was horrific. I was 12 at the time, and the assassination of President Kennedy has haunted me my entire life. I still think about it at least once a day.
@@Kayte-tv2cwit’s haunted your life? I hope it hasn’t stopped you from living. This happens 1000s of times a day the only difference was this time was a president.
Chief camera man and assistant news director , how many times have you heard that ?
I feel so bad for all the frantic people and Mr President Kennedy. I wasn’t born yet but this really makes me see how horrible of a day this was and how deeply it impacted our people. We love you Mr President Kennedy
gramps was in the 10th grade, he remembers it like yesterday... ladys in cafe started crying round lunchtime.....twas the assassination, the day the music died.
“The President’s been shot - I need a cigarette!”
If my mom was watching this she would change it saying i dont care they just interrupt my show!
Thing is though, there were only three channels. And they were all covering the assassination and its aftermath for days. Your mom would have been out of luck.
In 1963 it took WFAA, a local Dallas news station, 10-15 minutes to break the news of the assassination that happened in Dallas. Nowadays it would break worldwide close to immediately, in 4K. It's amazing how much technology has progressed.
Amazing that there were no live cameras on 11/22/63.
@@frederickrapp5396 A live tv camera of 1963 would take : a camera, a bus, sending equipment, antennas, crew. This was not that simple.
No crazy graphics or silly sound effects, just telling the people what they know at the time
I was 5 years old when the president was shot. Just got back from kindergarten. Was watching WGN , Channal 9 , Chicago. Bozo Circis.
Wasn’t everyone taken out of school, or did kindergarten get out early?
I went to kindergarten in the morning. Half a day. Got home around noon. Maybe , the afternoon , kindergarten , class got sent home early.
@@susieaxym We must be close to the same age. I went to Marquette School. Miller section of Gary , IN. Wonder if they tore Father Marquette's statue downn , by now ? I was born 17 March 1958. 5 years old. Morning half of the day.
@@susieaxym We must be close to the same age. I went to Marquette School. Miller section of Gary , IN. Wonder if they tore Father Marquette's statue downn , by now ? I was born 17 March 1958. 5 years old. Morning half of the day.
I was watching cartoons on KWWL, Waterloo, Iowa just before LEAVING for afternoon kindergarten. My vivid memory was getting to school and all my contemporaries were merrily assassinating each other with their finger-pistols. Those were the days.
I wonder why WFAA's full live coverage has been removed from YT?
This is amazing footage. From what I recall you never saw any live feed unrehearsed from the inside of broadcast newsrooms. Jay Watson did a first rate job keeping order out of all the chaos going on.
I love the drag on the cigarette while he's live on television.
I wonder how many cigs were smoked that day ?
Those were the days when everyone smoked anywhere they wanted .If you look at golf tournament videos from the early 60s Arnold Palmer can be seen dragging on a cigarette just before he would make a putt !
rob mush are u old enuff to smok?
Mark Symbala yea but many that have smoked in my family died of lung cancer and other issues from smoking. But I have never smoked. Just in this time of America everyone was smoking and it was the norm like drinking coffee today. Also they said smoking back then was good for you.
Nat King Cole said smoking made his voice sound better .He died from lung cancer age 45!
rob mush ya Rob please don't smoke
I like how both of my grandfathers have funny stories relating to the news of JFKs death as they were both very young. Everyone was let out of school early. My paternal grandfather and his friends wanted to cross the border from El Paso and into Juarez to drink but were turned away because the US had apparently shut the country off that day. My maternal grandfather, who was younger, wanted to go home and watch some cartoons on tv but was annoyed that all broadcasts were about the assassination
I remember well. I was 8 in the LA area
I was about 8 at the time and remember sitting in my grandmother's living room (we are Canadians) with a room full of people watching the funeral and crying. I couldn't understand what was going on.
I was in second grade, and remember it well. Normal TV programming was suspended until Monday the 25th, after the state funeral was held. There was no escaping the assassination coverage. Only four TV networks--CBS, NBC, ABC, and Public Television--existed; it was before cable TV or home video recording. We watched the TV until about 10:30 p.m. the night of the assassination, and then switched it off and went to bed. You felt a little disrespectful for thinking it, but at some point, you wanted to watch SOMETHING else.
IIRC it was Mexico that shut the whole border down in case the assassin tried to cross the border
I love that everyone smoked on tv then. As a smoker, it makes me wish I was alive in those days, or that those days were back.
I'm a smoker too. And I've heard this current era called "the time of nicotine Apartheid." No better words for it exist. Let me keep my Internet but tale me back to at least '71 so I can smoke in a college classroom or some place nobody born after 1979 would ever approve of. (I'm a Gen-Xer born into a family of smokers; my grandfather died in 1985 at age 71 from smoking-related heart failure.)
That reporter later changed his name to Nick Coteen
This must be terrifying to watch back in 1963...
Never seen a man need a cigarette so badly.
1:48-1:50, what was cut out?????? Playback speed for the report seems to fit more accordingly at 75 percent whereas the program does at normal speed
My gosh. I have never seen this before. Anyone else?
WFAA-TV, Channel 8, was at the time (and I believe still is) the ABC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth.
It's a Permanent Scar that the City of Dallas will definitely Never be Erased.
Disaster for lawenforcement them 2 days in texas.
It already has been. The population numbers of the metro area have increased massively. Millions and millions of people have moved in.
1:30 is it just me or is he shook af
Well ,I mean nothing prepares for you for announcing the assassination (let alone the death) of the most powerful man in the world.
Very much.